Herman Melville
By: edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Contributors: Bloom, Harold.
Edition: New ed.
Series: Bloom's modern critical views
Publisher: Bloom's Literary Criticism
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780791096215
Subjects: Melville, Herman, -- 1819-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-273) and index.
Table of contents: value: Towards "Bartleby the scrivener" / Milton R. Stern; value: Melville's problematic "being" / Sanford E. Marovitz; value: Reenvisioning America : Melville's "Benito cereno" / Sandra A. Zagarell; value: Allegory and breakdown in The confidence-man: Melville's comedy of doubt / John Bryant; value: "The author at the time" : Tommo and Melville's self-discovery in Typee / Bryan C. Short; value: Melville and the woman's story / Nancy Fredericks; value: "To tell over again the story just told" : the composition of Melville's Redburn / Stephen Mathewson; value: Israel Potter : Melville's "citizen of the universe" / Bill Christophersen; value: Disquieting encounters : male intrusions/female realms in Melville / Judith Hiltner; value: Narrative self-fashioning and the play of possibility / John Wenke; value: Whose book is Moby-Dick? / Merton M. Sealts, Jr.; value: Naples and HMS Bellipotent : Melville on the police state / Stanton Garner; value: Naturalist psychology in Billy Budd / Thomas Hove; value: We are family : Melville's Pierre / Cindy Weinstein; value: Discipline and the lash in Melville's White-jacket / Peter Bellis.